My best day of 2013? June 12th. No, I didn’t get engaged or meet the love of my life. Didn’t win the lotto or anything cool like that either. And it wasn’t my birthday. Nope… I got laid off. Surprised? Did you think my travel writing gigs bankrolled my lifestyle? Well, not quite. For a few years, […]
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RSS feed for this sectionThe Day I Interviewed Mrs. Obama About Travel
What? You didn’t know the First Lady and I were like best buds? Yeah, so a few days ago in China, after all of her press appearances, we were enjoying some tea…. Ok, so what really happened was… A few Fridays ago I received an email from CNN iReport team requesting a video question for […]
Five Destinations on My Travel Bucket List
As the saying goes, I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. This Susan Sontag quote definitely holds true for me in the last prompt of the Traveling Brown Girls Carnival. Here are 5 (of many) destinations on my travel bucket list India My infatuation with India started in high school and the cute […]
Top 5 International Travel Necessities
Hey travel lovers! It’s time for round 4 of the Traveling Brown Girls Carnival, hosted by Monique of Mo Travels! To date we’ve gotten some great tips and tricks from all of the participating travelistas and we continue today with our top 5 travel necessities. Of course you can’t travel without proper travel documents and it’s always […]
My Top 5 Travel Pet Peeves
Travel pet peeves? We all have them. I’m a pretty laid back person and not too easily annoyed or agitated. But, when it comes to travel and the tons of people you have to interact with in the digital and analog world, there’s guaranteed to be some frustrating situations. As much as I try not […]